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Subject: Re: Re: HFS Backup-RESTORE Review, and Apple HD20 \"Missing Space\"...
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Date: Tue, 8-Jul-86 12:51:16 EDT
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> If the disk (hd20) holds 20,000,000 bytes that is not 20,000K that is only
> 19,531K
> now that Apple like everyone else in computer science remembers that K=1024
> bytes.  That doesn't explain the other 360K missing (from the 19171 given as
> available after re-initialization) though.  Curious.

Pardon my French, but isn't the HD20 20 Megs *Unformatted* ?  This would 
perhaps explain the considerable amount of missing space.

Scott